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ABOUT THE IIRE

- in solidarity with progressive forces around the world

The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) provides activists and scholars worldwide with opportunities for research and education in three locations: Amsterdam, Islamabad and Manila. Read more

Resistance Books and the IIRE are appealing for donations to publish an English translation of Per una storia della IV internazionale. La testimonia di un comunista controcorrente by the Italian socialist Livio Maitan (1923 - 2004).
We have almost reached our goal of 5,000 euros, partly thanks to a significant donation in the form of translation work.

On October 26, 2018, the IIRE hosted a meeting on the occasion of eighty years of the Fourth International. In his talk at the event, Michael Löwy revisited the early history of the Fourth International.

Eighty years ago, the Fourth International was founded, inspired by the ideas of Leon Trotsky. The tool created in the aftermath of October 1917, the Third (Communist) International, had been transformed into a branch of of the diplomacy of the Soviet Union, purged the national parties, and ended in Germany in a defeat without a fight to Nazism.

We are very excited that the 7th international LGBTIQ seminar will take place in Amsterdam in the middle of July. As well as participants from many European countries we are expecting people from Asia, from the Middle East and from Latin America. But airfares are high and wages low In those parts of the world so we have a budget to help people who otherwise couldn’t come.

Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for Land:
Hugo Blanco is a figure of great significance for contemporary thought on revolutionary potential. His ideas and practical commitment straddles two great perspectives: